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Apr 7, 2014
Ravana battles the great vulture Jatayu and feeds him blood-covered stones, folio (recto) from a Chandana Malayagiri Varta (Story of King Chandana and Queen Malayagiri) of Karama Chandra
Ravana battles the great vulture Jatayu and feeds him blood-covered stones, folio (recto) from a Chandana Malayagiri Varta (Story of King Chandana and Queen Malayagiri) of Karama Chandra
1744–45
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Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Image: 13.4 x 14.9 cm (5 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.); Page: 28.8 x 20 cm (11 5/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
James Parmelee and Cornelia Blakemore Warner Funds 1968.108.a
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The blood-covered stones will weigh the bird down, so he cannot rescue Sita.
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Scenes of the abduction and rescue of Sita are embedded within a popular tale rewritten in a Gujarati-Rajasthani vernacular language by the poet Karama Chandra in 1629–30. Many details differ from the more well-known Ramayana of Valmiki. The artist shows Ravana as a royal, human figure carrying Sita in a white sack slung over one shoulder. As Jatayu, the Lord of Birds and ally of Rama, attempts to rescue her, Ravana attacks him with a sword, then feeds him stones that he covered in blood, so Jatayu would swallow them. The bird becomes weighed down, and Ravana succeeds in abducting Sita and taking her to Lanka.
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